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Sure you can, just go to www.linuxiso.org , pick your distro, download it, burn it and boot you other machine from the cd.
With 40 gigs I dont think you really have to watch the space.
Check the system requierments perhaps for the amount of ram and minimal processor nut most will run fine on a 133 mHz